Quantum Mechanics – Part II

Yesterday I introduced Quantum Physics and a few of its theories. In today’s blog I will continue and complete that conversation.

In 1964, a physicist named John Bell developed a theory that proved out an experiment developed in 1935 by Einstein, Pedolsky, & Rosen (known as the EPR (the first initial of each scientist’s last name) experiment). The EPR experiment was actually thought up in an effort to defeat quantum physics and show how ludicrous it was by poking a hole in the idea of non-locality. Bell’s theorem proved that the idea of something being local (or, existing in one place) was incorrect. What his theorem stated was that everything is non-local. In effect, particles may be linked, or entangled, on some level that is “beyond time and space.”

That idea is a bit difficult for us to wrap our minds around. Everything we’ve known has been related to time and space. Now, to know that these most basic features of the world in which we live are somehow superceded in the quantum world by the notion of everything touching all the time, seems pretty far out! It also flies in the face of our world’s philosophical view that we are separate from each other and everything else.

Niels Bohr, a frontrunner of the quantum physics study, and his colleagues in Copenhagen developed the Copenhagen Interpretation of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. If you remember from yesterday, the Uncertainty Principle states that velocity and location cannot be measured at the same time – only one or the other may be known. The Copenhagen Interpretation went on to say that it wasn’t only that they couldn’t be measured but that “it” (an object/particle) wasn’t even an “it” until it’s an observed “it.” Bohr believed that particles themselves don’t even come into existence until we observe them, and that reality on a quantum level does not exist until it is observed or measured!

The foundations of Quantum mechanics suggest that the conscious act of observation is the key factor in the formation of reality. This provides the actions of the observer as being able to collapse several possibilities into one reality. According to Princeton’s Nobel Prize-winning physicist, John Wheeler, “Useful as it is under everyday circumstances to say that the world exists ‘out there’ independent of us, that view can no longer by upheld.” In Wheeler’s words, we are not simply “bystanders on a cosmic stage, [but] shapers and creators living in a participatory universe.”

So, looking at the information presented today along with that presented yesterday, we can review our findings to understand how it is that quantum physics affects the Law of Attraction. Obviously, part of the Law of Attraction is born out by the above paragraph which tells us that we are “shapers and creators living in a participatory universe.” But, we also find something else that is an interesting phenomenon. Remember early on in the month that I wrote that the Law of Attraction was really made up of 4, already known, laws rolled into this one (e.g. Law of Faith, Law of Giving & Receiving, Law of Sowing & Reaping, & Karma)? Well, quantum theory suggests that instead of the dualistic model of karma which is: “I am mean to you, so now others will be mean to me,” everything is entangled and we are creating our own realities. So, the action or thought (which amount to the same “thing”) arises in a piece of my consciousness. There is a certain frequency, or vibration, associated with that thought. And, by taking action, I endorse that reality so that I am now connected to the universe by that frequency (or vibration). Therefore, everything “out there,” that is of the same frequency as my thought & action, will respond to the frequency of my thought and then be reflected in my reality! Wow!

You can see how by the study of Quantum Physics we may be one day able to absolutely prove, beyond a shadow of doubt, that there is a divine creator of this universe and that faith is as physical of a law as is gravity. The theories developed are already pointing to both of these things. As technology increases, and we are able to view smaller and smaller particles and other things that we currently cannot see, we may be able to emphatically prove both of the above suppositions.

Quantum Consciousness (Quantum Mechanics – Part I)

As we draw near to the end of this month, I am wrapping up my writings on the Law of Attraction. But before moving on to other subjects, I wanted to touch upon the topic of Quantum Physics (a.k.a. Quantum Mechanics or Quantum Particles).

Quantum physics is not a simple topic to cover in two days so I’m limiting the depth to which I will write on this subject. It is a vast world that is yet highly undiscovered but which leads to the hypotheses of many exciting possibilities. Some of the hypotheses of quantum mechanics have been used to underpin the beliefs of the Law of Attraction and Faith. Therefore, it is relevant that this information should be presented here.

Firstly, the term “Quantum” was applied to science by the German physicist Max Planck in 1900. Quantum is a Latin word that simply means “amount” or “quantity.” However, it is used in physics to mean the smallest unit of any physical property such as energy and matter. With the discovery that there are particles, smaller than the atom that make up matter, Quantum Physics was born!

In Newtonian physics (the theories of physics developed by Sir Isaac Newton; also called “Classical Physics”), Newton describes a universe in which all objects move within a three-dimensional space of geometry and time according to certain fixed laws of motion. Atoms, or matter, are considered to be self-contained, living within their own set boundaries. To illicit any change in matter requires applying some type of pressure to it – freezing it, heating it, or moving it. Newton’s laws, containing the central premise that things exist independently of each other, underlie our own philosophical view of the world – that we exist independently of one another and independently of every other thing.

Following are just a few of the discoveries of the Quantum world that have turned upside-down the Newtonian understandings provided by Classical Physics:

• Particles may be in two or more places at once. Creating two particles at once causes a condition known as entanglement. When two or more particles are entangled, it doesn’t matter how much distance is between them. When one of the entangled particles is changed, the other entangled particles are instantly affected in the same manner.

• Quantum physics is probabilistic rather than deterministic. We can never know with absolute certainty how a specific thing will turn out. In quantum physics, you cannot know the location and the velocity of an object. (This is known as the Uncertainty Principle.)

• In quantum physics, the observer influences the object observed. (There are no isolated observers of the mechanical universe. Everything participates in the universe.) Only one property may be known (or measured) at any given time because the object reacts differently depending upon what is being measured – implying that the observer’s intent is key to how the object appears! (These conditions are known as Non-Locality and Quantum Entanglement.)

• There is no “empty” space within atoms. Everything previously thought to be empty is now known to hold enormous quantities of energy.

• Quantum particles move instantaneously, rather than in an orbital pattern as concluded by Newton.

Quantum theory doesn’t replace Classical Physics. Instead, it supplies a whole new set of rules by which sub-atomic particles operate. The rules of Classical Physics still apply to objects of substantive matter – just not to the quantum world.

Quantum Consciousness

In attempts to solve the measurement problem in quantum physics, physicists frequently run into the problem of consciousness. Though most physicists try to sidestep the issue, it seems that there is a link between the conscious choice of an experiment and the outcome of that experiment. Some physicists, most notably Roger Penrose, believe that current physics cannot explain consciousness, and that consciousness itself has a link to the strange quantum realm. Other physicists, such as Fred Alan Wolf, lean toward believing that the rules that apply to quantum particles explain that our consciousness has everything to do with the realities of the lives that we live.

Looking, then, at a broad stroke view of this unusual world of quantum mechanics, quantum theory seems to prove out that there can be no universe without thought present – suggesting that God, or a Supreme Being, had to have created the universe of which we are now a part. Quantum theory also points to our abilities, as the observers of our lives (or our realities), to alter the outcome of events and influence the cellular structures of our own bodies to align with our beliefs.

There Is No Competition – There Is Only Abundance

We’re taught from a very young age to compete with our peers. We compete in running races. We compete to win when we play games. And we compete to make better grades or be the most popular students in school. The main problem that I see with competition is that it teaches us to believe that only one person can “win.”

We believe that you can be a “winner” by placing in the top 3 or top 5 or top 10 – depending upon the “competition” you are in. But we’re conditioned to believe that there is only a top X number of spaces reserved for those who excel in whatever it is we are doing. And, if we aren’t in that top X (number), we will not be “winners.” In other words, we’re conditioned to believe that there are a finite number of winners and the rest of us are doomed to not achieve the prize.

While competition may be healthy in some ways, the fact that it conditions us to a win-or-lose mentality, and that it makes us believe that there are only a finite number of resources and those resources are reserved for the winners in life, is unhealthy at best, and simply fallible at worst.

The resources of this planet are infinite. Scientists tell us that there are a finite number of natural resources that are available. However, we have an inside source. And we have insight into the makeup of everything. Since everything (every thing that is seen and unseen, known and unknown) is made up of the same matter – energy, and since that same energy is abundant throughout our entire universe, there is no limit to the resource (energy) that is required to make other resources (whatever it is that you desire).

Newtonian physicists taught us that everything in the universe is made up of matter which was termed to be atoms. Atoms are rapidly moving molecules, vibrating at various frequencies. And although a mass of atoms may appear to be a solid thing (such as a tree), they are anything but that. Atoms were thought to be made up of three fundamental particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons which could be changed through interactions with photons &/or neutrinos. That was it. Five particles amounted to the existence of all known matter. And, within the space taken up by each atom, we were told that there was mostly empty space.

Now, quantum physicists have learned that atoms are actually made up of sub-atomic particles like pions, muons, leptons, baryons, mesons, and quarks. And although we can’t always see these sub-atomic particles within the atoms themselves, we’re told that they exist and that a single thimble-full of positively charged sub-atomic particles house enough energy to light a major U.S. city for a week! Imagine that you are actually a storehouse of energy, vibrating at the frequency of a human being.

Since there is no separate “you” within the universe (we are all made of the same thing), you can see that you and I are one, you and gold are one, you and spirit are one, you and everything around you are actually connected. And, your thoughts, directed into the abundance of energy filling in the interspaces of our universe, actually affect that energy to become what ever it is you are thinking. In other words, your thoughts of a particular chair, emit a frequency that is the equivalent frequency emitted by that particular chair. If the universe is unable to find that chair and bring it to you, it simply directs some of the unused particles of energy around you to become that specific chair! How cool is that?

To Him who made all energy to begin with, causing some of that energy to become something other than unused energy vibrating at a low rate of frequency is not difficult.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.“ - John 1:1 (NIV)

“And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.” - Genesis 1:3 (NIV)

“…And God said, “let there be……….” and there was……” Genesis 1:1-31 (NIV)